http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/readied-donate-organs-21-old-emerges-coma-204904805.html;_ylt=Ak.WPAdt7e1bReYcijw9iJ2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNqN3IwdHBxBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEcGtnAzVjNGY3OTYwLWI4NTYtM2FkNC1hYTQzLTU1NzMwOTg4NmU0MgRwb3MDMQRzZWMDbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHZlcgM0MjcyMjM0MC0yY2Q4LTExZTEtYmZlYi0yMjhkZGUzZDBlMGU-;_ylg=X3oDMTJlaTQzcG12BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QDTm9uZXdzcmVhZGVyb25uZXdzaG9tZQ–;_ylv=3<\/a><\/p>\r\nAccording to the Associated Press, 21-year-old Schmid sustained such severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in an Oct. 19 multi-car accident that he had to be transported to the Barrow Neurological\u00a0Institute\u00a0at st. Joseph’s Medical Center in Phoenix. He underwent surgery on an aneurysm.<\/p>\r\n
But Schmid’s\u00a0prognosis wasn’t considered very good, according to AP.\u00a0Things were so bad that officials at the hospital\u00a0\u00a0hinted to his\u00a0family about his organs being donated.\u00a0Maybe it was hearing about the possibility of his lifeline pulled and his organs\u00a0removed, but the youth began responding.<\/p>\r\n
Schmid is now walking, using a walker, and doctors are expecting him to recover from his TBI.\u00a0\u00a0His mother, Susan Regan, thinks it’s a miracle, according to AP. And so does his neurosurgeon, Dr. Robert Spetzler, who just happened to train the doctor who performed surgery on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords when she was shot through the head in Tucson, AP reported.<\/p>\r\n
Spetzler held off on pulling life support on Schmid because MRIs didn’t show any\u00a0that any parts of his brain had any blood clots or if any part of his brain had become dark, a sign that brain tissue had died.\u00a0Then\u00a0suddenly, Schmid began to become responsive, AP reported.<\/p>\r\n
Schmid may have been in a medically induced coma, but he wasn’t alone when he was comatose. He was always surrounded by family and friends, who offered him support.\u00a0And we’d guess that even though he was out of it, he could still “hear” those who wanted him to recover.<\/p>\r\n
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